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Show I ve beeu to hear every day that you bad had to give up the fight. Oh that passed long ago, said I. "But you never told me, she reminded me. "And Im glad you didn't," she added. "Not knowing saved me from doing something very foolish." She reddened a little, smiled a great deal, dazzllngly, was altogether difAnita of a ferent from the short time before, different as June from January. And her hand so Intensely alive seemed extremely comfortable In mine. Even as my blood responded to that touch, I had a twinge of cynical bitterness. Yes, apparently I was at last getting what I had so long, so vainly, and, latterly, so hopelessly craved. But why was she giving It? Why had she withheld herself until this moment of material happiness? I have to pay the rich man's price," thought I, with a sigh. It was In reaching out for some sweetness to take away this bitter taste In my honey that I said to her, When you gave me that money from your uncle, you did It to help me out?" She colored deeply. How silly you must have thought me! she answered. I took her other hand. As I was drawing her toward me, the sudden pallor of her face and chill of her hands halted me once more, brought slckenlngly before me the early days of my courtship when she had Infuriated my pride by trying to be I looked round the room that room into which I bad put so much thought and money. Money! The rich mans price! those delicately brocaded walls shimmered mocklilgly at me. Anita, said I, do you care for me? She murmured lnaudlbly. Evasion! tkat you were ruined r ' ME MELO Author of 77IF COSTMc By DAVID GBAHAM PMLLIRS, scms-tztt tsbzi cort&tvyo tv (c&r&isrjr jsos z ply friends." And my manner fitted my words. She looked Btrangely at me, "You she would be content with that? asked. I answered what I thought would Let us make the best of please her. our bad bargain, said I. "You can trust me now, don't you think you can? She nodded without speaking; we were at the door, and the servants were hastening out to receive us. us. Always the servants between Servants Indoors, servants outdoors; morning, noon and night, from waking to sleeping, these servants to whom we are slaves. As those interrupting servants sent us each a separate way, her to her maid, me to my valet, I was depressed with the chill that the opportunity that has not been seen leaves behind It as It departs. Well," said I to myself by way of consolation, as I was dressing for dinner, she Is certainly softening toward you, and when she sees the new house you will be still better friends. CHAPTER XXVIII. Continued. She braced myself for the worst. Is about to tell me that she Is leaving, thought I. But I managed to aay: Im glad to hear of your luck, though I fear my tone was not espe-clal- lj I Joyous. I am in a posiyou, I think, what and Sam took from you. she went on, So, tion to pay back to my father be enough, Im afraid, to pay what you lost Indirectly. But I have told the lawyers to make It all over to you." It wont It was Into which 1 had got myself. I did not know what to say. 1 could hardly keep out of my face how foolish this collapse of my crafty conspiracy made me feel. And then the fulj meaning of what she was doing cume over me the revelation of her character. I trtisted myself to steal a glance at her; and for the first time I didnt see the thrilling azure sheen over her smooth white skin, though all her beauty was before me, as dazzling as when It compelled me to resolve to win her. No; I saw her, herself the woman within. I had known from the outset that there was an altar of love within my templo of passion. I think that was my first real visit to it. "Anita!" I said, unsteadily. Anita!" The color flamed in her checks; we were sHent for a long time. "You your people owe me nothing," I at length found voice to say. Even if they did, I couldnt and wouldn't take your money. But, believe me, they owe me nothing. "You cannot mislead me, she anWhen they asked me to beswered. come engaged to you, they told1 me I could have laughed aloud. too ridiculous, about this situation d "Bub-missiv- inside, will understand how l cun vuu a selfish reason moved me cede to draw my sword, and still can claim a higher motive. In such straits as r were mine, some men of my none temperament deoauch themselves; others thresh about blindly, reckless whether they strike innocent or guiity. I did neither. Probably many will recall that long before the securities of tbe reorganized coal combine were issued. I had In my dally letter to Investors been preparing the public to give them a A few days after fitting reception my whole being burst Into flames of resentment against Anita, out came the new array , of new stocks and bonds. Roebuck and Langdon arranged with the underwriters for a fake four times Indorsed by the two greatest banking houses In the Street Despite this oftentried and always-gootrick, the public refused to buy. I felt I had not been overestimating my power. But I made no move until the securities began to go up, and the financial reporters under the Influence where not actually In the pay of the clique shouted that, "in spite of the malicious attacks from the gambling element, the new securities are being absorbed by the public at prices approximating their value. Then But I shall quote my Investors letter the following morn- tat a;:-.-.- ' ing: At nine yesterday to be exact President Melville, of the National Industrial Bank, loaned six hundred thousand dollars. He loaned it to Bill Van Nest, an and proprietor ot pool looms, now silent partner In Hoe & Wittekind, brokers, on the New York Stock Exchange, and also In Filbert & Jonas, curb brokers. He loaned it to Van Nest without security. "Van Nest used the money yesterday to push up the price of the new coal securities by wash sales which means, by making false purchases and sales of the stock In order to give the public the impression of eager buying. Van Nest sold to himself and bought from himself 347,060 of the 352,681 shares traded in. Melville, In addition to being president of one of the largest banks in the world, is a director in no less half-pas- t than seventy-thregreat industrial enterprises, Including railways, telegraph companies, savings banks and life Insurance companies. Bill Van Nest has done time In the Nevada State Penitentiary for That was all. And It was enough e It." horse-stealin- I had forgotten. The whole repul-ive- , rotten business came back to me. And, changed man that I had become la tbe last six months, I saw myself aB I had been. I felt that she was looking at me, was reading the degrading confession In my telltale features. "I will tell you the whole truth," said I. I did use your fathers and your brothers debts to me as a means of getting to you. But, before God, Anita, I swear I was honest with you when I said to you I never hoped or wished to win you In that way! I believe you, she replied, and her toue and expression made my heart leap with Indescribable Joy. quite enough. I was a national figure, as much so as If I had tried to assassinate the president Indeed, I had exploded a bomb under a greater than the president under the chiefs of the real government of the United States, the government that levied dally upon every citizen, and that had state and national and the principal municipal governments in Us strong box. I confess I was as much astounded at the effect of my bomb as old Melville must have been. I felt that 1 had been obscure, as. I looked at the newspapers, with Matthew Blackiock appropriating almost the entire front page of each. I was the Isolated, the conspicuous figure, standing alone upon the steps of the temple of Mammon, where mankind dally and devoutly comes to offer worship. Not that the newspapers praised me. I recall none that spoke well of me. The nearest approach to praise was the "Blackiock squeals on the Wall Street gang In one of the penny sheets that strengthen the plutocracy by lying about It. Some of the papers Insinuated that I had gone mad; others that I had been bought up by a rival gang to the Roebuck-Langdoclique; still others thought I was simply hunting notoriety. All were Inclined to accept as a sufficient denial of my charges Melvilles dignified refusal "to notice any attack from a quarter so discredited. As my electric whirled Into Wall Street, I saw the crowd In front of the Textile building, a dozen policemen keeping It in order. I descended amid cheers, and entered my offices through a mob struggling to shake hands with me and, in my Ignorance of mob mind, I was delighted and Inspired! Just why a man who knows men, knows how wishy-wishthey are as individuals, should be Influenced by a demonstration from a mass ot themT Is hard to understand. But the fact Is indisputable. They fooled me then; they could fool me again, in spite of all I have been through. There probably wasnt one In that mob for whose opinion I would have had the slightest respect had he come to me alone; yet as I listened to those shallow cheers and those worthless assurances of the people are behind I felt that I was a you, Blackiock, man with a mission! Our main office was full, literally full, of newspaper men reporters from morning papers, from afternoon n and foreign papers, from papers. I pushed through them, saying as I went: My letter speaks for me, gentlemen, and will continue to speak for me. I have nothing to say except through It But the public urged one. It doesnt Interest me, said I, on my guard against the temptation to cant. I am a banker and investment broker. I am Interested only In my customers. And I shut myself In, giving strict orders to Joe that there was to be no talking about me or my campaign. I dont purpose to let the newspapers make us cheap and notorious, said I. We must profit by the warning in the fate of all the other fellows who have sprung into notice by attaching sometimes most unwise In reins he puts on passion. Instead of acting as impulse And 1 commanded, I said, clumsily: from what I am very different was last spring." It never occurred to me how she might Interpret those words. She waited I know, she replied. several seconds before adding: I, too, have changed. I see that I was far more guilty than you. There Is no excuse for me. I was badly brought up, as you used to say, but "No no," I began to protest. You She cut me short with a sad: need not be polite and spare my feelings. Lets not talk of It. Let us go back to the object I had In coming for you You owe me nothing, I repeated. "Your brother and your father settled long ago. I lost nothing through them. And Ive learned that if I had never known you. Roebuck and Lang-dowould still have attacked me. "I PUSHED THROUGH THEM. What my uncle gave me ha3 been transferred to you, said she, woman uiU, when the great day came, I was thought I, and suspicion sprang on' fashion, not hearing what she did not . nat 80 sure. Alva wfent for a "private guard, bristling. care to heed. "I can't make you ac- view with young Thornley; out of Anita, I repeated sternly, do you cept it; but there It Is, and there It her enthusiasm she telephoned me care for me? I am you wife, stays. she replied, her from the very midst of the surround"I cannot take It, said I. If you ings she found so wonderful and so head drooping still lower. And hesiInsist on leaving It In my name. I beautiful thus she assured me, and tatingly she drew away from me. That shall simply return It to your uncle. her voice made It impossible to doubt. seemed confirmation of my doubt and I wrote him what I had done, she And, the evening before the great day, I said to her satirically, You are willHis answer came yester- I going for a final look round, could ing to be my wife out of gratitude, to rejoined. day. He approves it. find no flaw serious enough to justify put it politely? Approves It! I exclaimed. the sinking feeling that came over me She looked straight into my eyes You do not know how ecceptrlc he every time 1 thought of what Anita and answered, I can only say there is she explained, naturally misun- would think when she saw my efforts no one I like so well, and I will give Is, derstanding my astonishment. She to realize her dream. I set out for you all I have to give. took a letter from her bosotn and "home half a dozen times at least, I exclaimed contemptuousLike! handed it to me. I read: that afternoon, before I pulled myself ly, my nerves giving way altogether. "Dear Madam: It was yours to do together, called myself an ass, and, .And you would be my wife! Do you with as you pleased. If you ever find with a pause at Delmonicos for a want me to despise you? I struck yourself in the mood to visit. Gull drink, which 1 ordered and .then re- dead my poor, feeblq hope that had House is open to you, provided you jected, finally pushed myself in at the been all but . I rushed from bring no maid. I will not have female door. What a state my nerves were the room, closing the door violently servants about. Yours truly. In! between us. "HOWARD FORRESTER. Alva had departed; Anita was wattSuch was our housewarming. . When You will consent now, will you ing for me in her sitting-roomXXIX. sot? she asked, as I lifted my eyes she heard me in the hall, just outside, BLACKLOCK OPENS FIRE. Come In, she stood in the doorway. from this characteristic note. For what I proceeded to do, ail I saw that her peace of mind was she said to me, who did not dare so sorts of motives, from the highest to much as glance at her. at stake. Yes I consent. I entered. I must have looked as 1 the basest, have been attributed to She gave a great sigh as at the lay-loThank felt like a boy, summoned before the me. Here is the truth: I had already down of a heavy burden. you, was all she said, but she put a teacher to be whipped in presence of- pushed the medicine of hard work to world of meaning into the words. the entire school. Then I was con- its limit. It was as powerless against She took the first homeward turning. scious that she had my hand how this new development as water We were nearly at the house before she had got It, I dont know and that against a drunkards thirst.' I must I found words that would pave the she was murmuring, with tears of find some new, some compelling drug Oh, I can't some frenzy of activity that would way toward expressing my thoughts happiness In her voice: swallow up myself as the battle makes say it! my longings and hopes. Glad you like your own taste," said the soldier forget his toothache. This You say you have forgiven me. You know, Alva told confession said I. "Then we can be friends?" I awkwardly. may chagrin many who have believed In me. My enemies She was silent, and I took her som- me. But Its one thing to dream, and a will hasten to say: ber expression to mean that she Aha, his motive very different thing to do, she an- was even more selfish and petty than feared 1 was biding some subtlety. I mean just what I say, Anita, I swered. Then, with smiling reproach: was alleged." But those wno look at these bandits. And Ive been thinking all summer human nature honestly, and from the t Friends slm hastened to explain. (To b Love his use Is of the to-da- y n still-born- g . - y ContinusdJ New In Natural History. Not all English , children are well posted on live stock. The following howlers are from essays exhibited at a recent show: Tbe young horses have long legs, bo that It might keep up to its mother when wild lions like the lion and tiger are after them to The fowl, declares devour them. still another, when alive is used for and when dead for Its The pig gets beautiful feathers. Its wool coat off In summer. Then we get the wool of 1L The pig Is regarded as a bad creature." cock-fightin- MELONS IN STORAGE HOW PEACE JUSTICE DECIDED COMPLICATED CASE. Both Sides Seemed to Have the Law on Their Side, and the Judge Arose Sublimely to the Occasion. Problems worthy of Solomon's acumen are often submitted to these rural arbitrators, justices of the peace. MEDICAL FAILURES. In tbe Macon county (Mo.) archives ' Is a case of this sort: of An Authority 8ays Three-Fourth- s Timothy Kain, a farmer of Easley Graduates Are Unfitted to Practice. township, set out some watermelon vines which thrived so luxuriously That 3,000 out of the 4,000 gradu- that they trespassed upon the field ates turned out by the Medical Col- of his neighbor, Felix Hopper. When leges each year are whollly unfitted to garnering time came Rains attempt practice medicine and are menaces to to harvest his runaway product was the communities in which they set- rebuked by Hopper and his shotgun. tle was stated by Dr. Chester Mayer, The controversy got Into court and of the State Board of Medical ExamSquire William Easley, for whom the iners of Kentucky at a meeting of the township was named, was asked to deAmerican Medical Associations Comcide the ownership of ten watermelons mittee on Medical Education, held In worth 15 cents apiece. The lawyers Chicago not long ago. Dr. Mayer said for Kaln read books to show that his that only 25 to 28 per cent of the rights of property followed the vines graduates are qualified. Fifty-eigh- t clear into the next county should they per cent of the graduates examined in travel so far. Hoppers lawyers pro28 states were refused licenses. With duced equally sound reading to prove few exceptions these failures took a that Hopper was entitled by law to second examination in a few weeks anything that camped on his premises. and only 50 per cent of them passed. It wasn't Hoppers fault, they said, if This does not mean that deficienthe vines wanted to spread out and go cies in their training were corrected visiting; he had the same right to in those few weeks, Dr. Mayer said. them that he would have to a colony It probably shows that experience of honey, bees that might get tired of showed them what the test would being with Kain and concluded to probably be and they crammed for move over and make honey, for HopDr. W. T. Gott, per. the examination. Secretary of the Indiana Board said: Squire Easley let the lawyers spout The majority of our schools now until they had read through all their teach their students how to pass ex- books, then arose to his six feet and said : aminations, not how to be good physicians. Mitchell has read books that make At the session of the American it absolutely certain them melons beMedical Association held in Atlantio long to Kain. I hadnt any doubt in City in June, Dr. M. Clayton Thrush, the world about that till Guthrie here a professor in the Medico Chirurglcal got up and turned Mitchells law botCollege In Philadelphia said: "Many tom side up. Theres no question but doctors turned out of the Medical whats there enough law in the books Schools are so Ignorant in matters for both Kain and Hopper, and that pertaining to pharmacy that they ought, to make em happy. The court know nothing about the properties decides, under the circumstances that both ways, of the drugs they prescribe for their with the law deciding to hand out to do but PresDr. theres nothing Beats, Jr., Henry patients!" ident of the Pennsylvania State Board justice as he sees it. The Judgment of Medical Examiners, after scrutiniz- of the court is that those are Kains ing the papers of a class of candi- melons said Thank you, your honor, dates for licensure said: About one quarter of the papers show a degree Mitchell, arising and bowing. but that hes Indebted to Hopper of illiteracy that renders the candidates for licensure incapable of un- 20 cents apiece for storage, finished the justice. derstanding medicine. But, your honor, said Mitchell, inA great many more physicians and chemists might be quoted In support dignantly, you cant do that. They of the astounding charge that 3,000 in- haven't filed any claim for storage, becompetents are being dumped onto sides, youre allowing them more for an unsuspecting public each year. their melons than- theyre worth on the What the damage done amounts to market. The court will take judicial notice can never be estimated for these inof defendants rights, offset or no, the diof competents enjoy the, privilege said Squire Easley, with some asperagnosing, prescribing, or dispensing And your own evidence shows drugs regarding the properties of ity. which they know nothing and then Hopper was diligently guarding Kaln's of signing death certificates that are property for him. That's worth somenot passed upon by anyone unless the thing. Guarding it? coroner is called in. Probably there Yes. Kain himself testified Hopis not a grave yard from one end of the country to the other that does not per was there with a shotgun when contain the buried evidences of the he climbed over the fence. Kansas mistakes or criminal carelessness ot City Star. Incompetent physicians. A Definition of Success. During the last year there have been perhaps, half a dozen known scienHow have the hypothetical cases where surgeons, after performtists and the exponents of unbelief ing operations have sewed up the In- benefited themselves or humanity at cisions without first removing the large by sowing the seeds of doubt gauze sponges used to absorb the broadcast in the world? The real sciblood, and in some cases forceps and entists do not fall in this category, for even surgeons scissors have been they are believers in the real sense of left In the wound. How many of the word; they know too much, they these cases there have been, where have seen too many mysterious manithe patient died, there is no means festations of the Divine creative powoi knowing and comparatively few er. Now, those who have disposed of of the cases where the discovery Is the Bible and all evidences of inspiramade in time to save life become gen- tion, have written a great many books and some of them have won what the erally public. Reports from Sanitariums for the treatment of the Drug world at large lightly calls fame. AcHabit show that members of the medi- cording to the ordinary measures that cal profession are more often treated are applied in such cases, they have in these institutions than members been extremely successful, but real of any other profession, and that a success means the benefit of humanmajority of the patients, excluding the ity In some form or other. If no such can trace benefits can be shown as the result of themselves, physicians their downfall directly to a careless their labors, their success Is not equal to that achieved by the direst poverty physician. How many criminal operations are and the deepest Ignorance. Joel performed by physicians is also a Chandler, In Uncle Remus Magazine. matter of conjecture. Operations of this class are, unfortunately, very The Gocart Should Go. freonent In large cities. Some graduThe gocart is killing, says a writer ated and licensed physicians, many in the New York Press. No man or of them of supposed respectability, In one; and it is a woman could make an exclusive practice of crim- crime to make sleep infants sit up ten hours inal medical and surgical treatment. a The inday in such contraptions. Dr. Henry G. W. Rheinhart, Coroners fant should be allowed to lie down flat physician of Chicago, estimates tha on its back and have a good snooze. number of criminal operations, annu-alllWhenever I feel a little on a in Chicago alone at 38,000. How hot afternoon and allow stupid to sit myself many resulted fatally are unknown, in a chair and nod I feel a sort of tugas when death results, the real cause ging at my heart and am dazed on Is disguised In the death certificate, awakening. It is not healthful. The which the physician signs, and which siesta of the equatorial regions is no one but himself and a clerk sees. never enjoyed sitting. The senorita Probably not one case of malpracand the senora recline. They also retice in 1,000 ever becomes the subject lax. Their little sleep lasts about two of a law suit but in the last year aphours and it is all sleep. Let the child proximately 150 cases wherein the lie down. It Is better for it to have Its plaintiff has alleged malpractice have feet above its head than its Tiead been reported in the newspapers, and above its feet. Get rid of the gocart owing to the social prominence and immediately, the favored positions of many physicians not more than half the new A Distinction. suits stated, probably, result In any said the prisoner, after Gentlemen, but It would newspaper publicity, I thank you for my vindicaacquittal, probably not be an exaggeration to state that the total eases of malprac- tion. Young feller, replied the foreman tice, not Involving criminal operations or criminal medical practice, would of the jury, you dont seem to know amount to 150,000 or more than one the difference between a vindication and a streak of good luck. . case to each physician in the country. This estimate Is, of course, more or A Scheme. less conjecture. Untimely deaths and I save 20 cents every time Knicker permanent disabilities are frequent, I shave myself. and occur within the knowledge of alMrs. Knicker Then why don't you most every one, when life could have been saved, or health restored had shave five times a day and save more? The Circle the physician been skillful, careful and competent. - |
